Some years ago, #NYCDHS put me in a freezing unheated room at #HELPSEC, run by #HELPUSA also on #WardsIsland, during a cold wave, with only a sheet, no blanket. I spoke like Louis Armstrong. "They're working on it", I was told, but I saw neither any work nor any results. ...

Temperatures inside Wards Island homeless shelter fell to 45 degrees, inspectors say City regulations say temperatures indoors should be at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

Corrected title: Temperatures inside the #SchwartzAssessmentShelter on #WardsIsland, owned by #NYCDHS and run by #VolunteersOfAmericaGreaterNewYork aka #VOA-GNY, fell to 45 degrees, @nyhomeless.bsky.social monitors' measurements show. Torture.
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Kerri Aherne, accused of stabbing mom changing baby in NYC Macy’s, cycled through psych hospitals Kerri Aherne told police she has spent most of her adult life in mental hospitals. In summer 2024, she walked out of a Massachusetts mental hospital on a temporary leave pass and hopped an Uber to …

#KerriAherne, accused of stabbing a mom changing her baby in Macy’s department store restroom, had "cycled through psych hospitals", including spending a year at the #ManhattanPsychiatricCenter on #WardsIsland. She also lived in a homeless shelter before the #MPC.
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Homeless Queens subway slasher confesses to attacking strangers: ‘Yeah, that’s me’ Tyquan Manassa also told police that he slashed the two strangers because he was “having a bad day,” a source with knowledge of the case said.

A homeless man, who "was living at a shelter on #RandallsIsland" (in fact, #WardsIsland), was arrested for stabbing or slashing two people at a Queens subway station. Watch for anti-homeless calls for #InvoluntaryCommitment.
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A History of Ward's Island Told Through Marginalized New Yorkers Sent to Live There | All Of It | WNYC For almost two centuries, New York has used Ward's Island as a space to house its most marginalized residents. Philip T. Yanos, a professor of psychology at John Jay College of Crimin...

In this episode of WNYC All of it w/ Alison Steward, author Philip T. Yanos discusses his research about Ward's Island. They also speak with lister's who visited or lived on the Island. buff.ly/La8CGQy #NYCHistory #WardsIsland #NYC #ImmigrantRefuge #NewYorkCityAsylumForTheInsane